Re: Shell companies fraudulently buying up IPv4 addresses.
@Roland6: 'various honorary titles (eg. earl of xyz), still had valuable rights associated with them, dating back hundreds of years'...
You have to admire the audacity of their ancestors, some Earl rode up to some medieval farmer and announced he wanted sex with the farmers daughter and how the farmer now owed four fifths of his produce to his lordship into perpetuity. That reminds me, most kids are now getting their history from 'Game of Thrones' ..